db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
The original reddit was closer to hackernews than the generic site it is now. Not only that but spez has admitted that the original traffic was artificial, by which I mean, the owners themselves were creating fake engagement through various means, such as scraping and cross-posting content from sites like digg via sockpuppets to appear that the site had way more traffic than it had.
otter@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
Time to make a new original community on Lemmy, just for sock puppets.
Purpose: Art of sock puppets reenacting real life events. The art can be doodles on napkins, AI art, or real physical sock puppets.
I’d like to start off the community with this image
Image
db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
here’s a free tool to help you generate images. tinybots.net/artbot/create
Pass existing images as img2img and use controlnets to follow an existing composition
otter@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
Perfect, I’ll link it in the sidebar
Aussiemandeus@aussie.zone 10 months ago
Ohhhh, i saw this place and thought huh really getting to be something for everyone, now i know the origins
otter@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
It felt wacky enough that it was unlikely to be another clone